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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wyrmshadows" data-source="post: 3969532" data-attributes="member: 56166">You should realize that Nietzsche would in a high fantasy game like D&D, be LE. He is a proponant of the superman who determines his own morality and is a proponant of a moral darwinism that stands in direct opposition to anything that D&D or any fantasy fiction for that matter would consider good.I believe that some portion of Neitzsche's philosophy has merit as it can greatly empower the individual but when taken to extremes it creates a compassionless society and at its most extreme end would argue for things like eugenics. There is nothing ultimately GOOD to be found in using Neitzche as an example of morality.In order to "balance the scales" in a situation of good being truly ascendant, someone like Mordenkainen would have to either commit grievous acts of evil or aid and abet acts of great evil this would by any rational assessment make him evil.Can anyone really imagine that anyone who rescues 300 orphans from burning buildings, can seek to balance out their behavior by brutally murdering 20 prostitutes? I'm sure this person would be considered an evil bastard, a tragically evil bastard perhaps for all the god he's done, but someone deserving punishment for capital murder.Unfortunately, only in D&D are there even arguments about moral issues that do not and cannot ever take place either in real life or in ANY fantasy fiction. Someone fighting to balance out good and evil can only only happen in D&D and only in D&D can anyone attempt to justify the unjustifiable.Wyrmshadows</blockquote>

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